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September 12, 2005

Banned Books Week: September 24-October 1, 2005

"Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met." -- American Library Association Web site [link]

This site along with many others offers background information about banned or challenged books. You can also find a list of the 100 most frequently challenged adult and children's books of 1990-2000 at [link]

Our own Web site on challenged children's books [http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/challenged.htm] provides a listing of children's books with summaries categorized by format: picture books, children’s books (including early readers and chapter books), and young adult books.

Exploring challenged/banned books will offer insights into what is controversial at different times in society as well as what issues remain controversial over extended periods. Read, explore, and think!

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Welcome to the blog for the S-Collection for children's and young adult literature at the Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library (University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign). We will use this blog to post information about our collection, provide tips on how to find specific resources, and share information that will be useful for certain University of Illinois courses that utilize the S-Collection. S-Collection homepage.

All the images on the S-Collection pages are used with the kind permission of Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project, the largest online collection of illustrated antique children's books. The S-Collection logo is made up of letters from alphabet books in the Rosetta Project's collection.